Press Release
Published on April 30, 2021
NEW YORK — Today marks one hundred days of President Biden’s administration. While the Biden presidency has brought some needed progress, the administration has considerable work ahead to re-establish justice as the guiding force for American leadership around the globe.
At the 100-day milestone, Human Rights First calls on the Biden administration to take swift and decisive action to center human rights, dignity, and humanity in its policies for the rest of its time in office.
“While we commend the work the Biden administration has done to right the wrongs of the previous administration in its first hundred days, that’s a return to the status quo,” said Human Rights First President and CEO Michael Breen. “The American people need bold action to meet the challenges of this moment, and the central question is what the president will do with his next 100 days.”
Human Rights First applauds many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments in its first 100 days, including ending the discriminatory Muslim and African refugee bans, calling for a military-wide stand-down to address and root out white supremacy in the military, committing to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council, and partnering with allies to sanction human rights abusers abroad.
In the next 100 days of the Biden presidency, we call on the administration to tackle systemic injustice in the United States by:
To counter authoritarianism around the globe, we call on the Biden administration to:
To reestablish American leadership in human rights protection, we call on the Biden administration to:
